The White House vs. The Press

The White House’s continual attempts to circumvent or constrain news media from reporting on subjects it wants to keep out of the spotlight have been the basis for much discussion, pro and con.

One of the latest to weight in is Geoffrey R. Stone, a former U.S. Supreme Court law clerk and currently a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism,” which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for 2005 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for 2004.

“Although the threats of the White House are largely bluster, they must nonetheless be taken seriously. Not because newspapers are really in danger of being prosecuted, but because such intimidation is the latest step in this administration’s relentless campaign to control the press and keep the American people in the dark.”